Hey! There's my house!

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 2:47 am

My house is one of those on that photo there:

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-27.4523 ... &t=k&hl=en
Zoom out to place it in a global context

Where are other Songfighters coming from?

I love this new Google mapping stuff. Anyone who doesn't have it, must download Google Earth:
http://earth.google.com/
It's the most amazing computer thing I've ever seen - even if it doesn't work on Mac's yet and I can only play with it at work

Egg · Post by **Egg** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 4:45 am

You'll need to give us a more specific idea if you want us to hit that neighbor with our Phunt Painful Music LASER.

That's right, a beam of concentrated musical light.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 5:47 am

<a href="http://chris.hoblit.net/hoblit/hoblitshideaway.htm" target="resource window">Tampa Rawks</a>

deshead · Post by **deshead** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 7:57 am

I'm here. It's raining.

Future Boy · Post by **Future Boy** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 8:47 am

I'm roughly in the middle of this picture, obscured by clouds.

bortwein · Post by **bortwein** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 8:54 am

Austin, TX and damn it still looks hot out. This is an old photo, the condos in my neighborhood have been done building for a few years now but are still being built in this photo.

At Work

Bjam · Post by **Bjam** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 8:57 am

We all live here .

Back in the UK we lived here right next to the Grand Union Canal.

thehipcola · Post by **thehipcola** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 9:48 am

I spend my days and nights in a basement somewhere in this mess...
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=k1b4b3&sp ... &t=k&hl=en

but currently at the cottage which is here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=j0x2m0&sp ... &t=k&hl=en

..apparently there was a very large square cloud right overhead that day.... ?

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Kamakura · Post by **Kamakura** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 10:21 am

I'm here

Why is it that the UK maps seem to have less definition that the US ones? Perhaps it's because there's nothing worth spying on... though Atlantis is quite close by and the local butcher makes very good sausages.

Rik · Post by **Rik** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 7:44 pm

Found Mine
Funny, I can see the neighbor's houses on either side of mine. But it looks like a crater where mine should be. If there were one more click on the zoom, you'd probably be able to see cars in the driveways. This is intense.

Heather. Redmon. · Post by **Heather. Redmon.** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 8:07 pm

Thisis where we live in northeast Minneapolis and thisis where we're moving to in Saint Paul. Pretty samey looking from the sky, but different if you zoom out!

jack · Post by **jack** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 8:45 pm

my house is smack in the middle of this picture

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 4:41 am

Kamakura wrote:I'm here

Why is it that the UK maps seem to have less definition that the US ones?

Put your telly on and watch "Coronation Street" or "The Bill" for a while. Then switch over and watch "Buffy", or "The OC", or even "Home and Away".

Soft focus really is better in your part of the world, I'm afraid

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 4:49 am

I love how with Google Earth you can put little markers at any point on the globe - then when you click on the marker - you 'fly' there and zoom right in.

It would be great to have a data file of locations of songfighters around the world, so you could fly from town to town seeing where the songs were coming from. It's way beyond my capabilities - but it's probably not that hard to do for a computerhead

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 5:44 am

More mapping fun:

A bloke I used to work with was obsessed by something called the World Confluence Project - which is trying to get a photo at every spot on Earth where whole lines of lat. and long. meet.

Once while we were doing a flora and fauna survey in outback NSW, he talked me into doing this:
http://www.confluence.org/photo.php?visitid=4239&pic=2

a photo of a slightly pissed off Caravan Ray standing at exactly 29 degrees S, 150 degrees E, in a sheep paddock, in the freezing cold at 6am somewhere outside of Boggabilla

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 10:38 am

That's awesome. I've known about the DCP for a while and that's really cool that you've done one of those.

starfinger · Post by **starfinger** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:25 am

i live conveniently nestled between these two lakes:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=denville, ... &t=k&hl=en

-craig

blue · Post by **blue** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 12:08 pm

my awesome hometown -

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=wellborn, ... &t=k&hl=en

of Wellborn, Florida. one blinking light over the lone intersection, no grocery stores, no schools, 35 churches, and all the acres of tobacco farms you could drive a truck over.

currently living in this slightly more populated area

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=94042&ll= ... &t=h&hl=en

just down the road from google itself.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=94042&ll= ... &t=h&hl=en

google is right on the other side of 101 there, toward the bay.

thehipcola · Post by **thehipcola** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 12:11 pm

Caravan Ray wrote:More mapping fun:

A bloke I used to work with was obsessed by something called the World Confluence Project - which is trying to get a photo at every spot on Earth where whole lines of lat. and long. meet.

Once while we were doing a flora and fauna survey in outback NSW, he talked me into doing this:
http://www.confluence.org/photo.php?visitid=4239&pic=2

a photo of a slightly pissed off Caravan Ray standing at exactly 29 degrees S, 150 degrees E, in a sheep paddock, in the freezing cold at 6am somewhere outside of Boggabilla

That is super cool CR! I also know about the Confluence Project...pretty nifty idea.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:42 pm

TheHipCola wrote:
That is super cool CR! I also know about the Confluence Project...pretty nifty idea.

I could have claimed 32 S, 149 E for myself if I'd wanted.

I was working in the Goonoo forest and my GPS told me I was only about 100m from the point. But it was late and I was cold and hungry and wanted a beer and really couldn't be bothererd crawling through 100m of forest just to look like a dick on the internet (again).

The guys who eventually claimed it were the the guys who replaced me after I quit that job!

Freddielove · Post by **Freddielove** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 4:05 pm

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Houston+T ... &t=k&hl=en

chucky · Post by **chucky** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 5:15 am

in about two weeks i'm moving here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=46.30437 ... &t=k&hl=en .. my apartment is about an inch from the water, and three inches or so southeast of the big square blue thing.

right now, i live here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=46.30437 ... &t=k&hl=en on the upper right part of the big intersection, near the smaller one.

and sometimes here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=45.52805 ... &t=k&hl=en on one of those blocky streets.

this is fun, but they need to get closer in on canada. we're friendly, google; we wont hurt you.